The World We Live In

Today at dinner I had a conversation with my mom about her newly created "Facebook".  It seems the newest niche in Facebook membership is adults.  Not young-adults.  Adult-adults.  People with real jobs and kids and bills.  My mom was at a complete loss.  She didn't get the point of Facebook.  She didn't understand how to work it.  There were parts of it she just found stupid.  Yet she spent hours today adding her new "friends" and reading other people's "walls".  Can't wait until the next social networking trend.  Hopefully not Twitter.  Twitter is just dumb.  Perhaps it will be Flickr, or Xanga or even Lookbook.  Can't wait until everyone is comparing how they dress on Lookbook.

I wish there was still a legitimate counter-culture.  I need something to yell about.  I think I am going to start a right-winged counter-culture.  Nothing violent or radical.  The trend-whore liberals tend to piss me off.  I don't even like most right-winged ideal or figures.  I just get really upset when I see the same "free-thinking" activists (who called President Bush a fascist dictator) tell people that if they question Obama they aren't being supportive and they are in the wrong.  The same people that called Bush a fascist are the ones that will bite your head off today if you so much as imply a link between Obama and socialism.  I think Rush Limbaugh is a douche but I don't see his saying that he wanted Obama's liberal policies to fail any different than people putting anti-Bush slogans everywhere.  Even Rush Limbaugh didn't stoop to the level of saying "Fuck Obama" like many of his political opposites did about Bush.  It upsets me to see free-trade, vegan hipsters scoff at the "ignorant" masses even more than it upsets me to think of the masses of America as ignorant.  Since when was policy decided by cut-off wearing, unwashed faux-intellectuals who were too good to go to college, but "intelligent" enough to decide to follow whatever their 10th grade public school Enlgish teacher told them because said Enlgish teacher told them they were good at writing and made them feel better about themselves.  To set the record straight, I am in no way shape or form a conservative. I am anti-war, pro gay marriage and anti death penalty.  It just upsets me to see people who might actually care about the world we live in get sucked in to the ebb and flow of political trends and deciding to wield the dangerous powers of mass appeal to accomplish political goals that will ultimately crumble, starting with the hollow foundations they were built upon.  Even a mob that sets out to accomplish good has to cope with the dangers of mob mentality.  I don't dislike Barack Obama, I think so far he has done an okay job, but just like Bush took his huge initial approval ratings and ran (off a cliff) with them, Obama could just as easily do the same.  I hate to say "question everything" because it sounds cliche.  I guess I just want people try to look at issues from both sides.